All Quotes

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
‐‐ Randy Johnson

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
‐‐ James Hillman

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
‐‐ Auguste Comte

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
‐‐ Billy Graham

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
‐‐ Clarence Clemons

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billion people don't have to see or hear it. If I've enjoyed the process of creation and I'm at peace, then what happens next is just entertainment. If mass appeal were actually something, Marilyn Monroe wouldn't be dead.
‐‐ Grace Slick

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
‐‐ Robin Givhan

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
‐‐ Hugh Douglas

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
‐‐ Mireille Guiliano

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
‐‐ Stella Adler

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
‐‐ Zola Jesus

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
‐‐ Ivan Turgenev

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
‐‐ Dave Barry

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
‐‐ Joshua Chamberlain

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
‐‐ Tablo

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
‐‐ Brennan Manning

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
‐‐ Sri Chinmoy

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
‐‐ Alia Shawkat

The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

The words I overuse are all adverbs.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
‐‐ George Clinton

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.
‐‐ David Mitchell

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
‐‐ Sarah Fielding

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
‐‐ Paul Simon

The words of the world want to make sentences.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
‐‐ Lao Tzu